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and one fact they want to ignore, many of the politically oriented subs are managed by PACs who worked for years to get their people into moderator positions if
by Shivetya 9y ago
and one fact they want to ignore, many of the politically oriented subs are managed by PACs who worked for years to get their people into moderator positions if not create subs as they needed them. then through mailing lists, text alerts, and such, they know what stories to post and act on.
reddit is anything but wild wild west anymore, its been co-opted by those who know how to manipulate opinion of products and persons
- AllegedAlec 9y agoI don't think this is all that specific to Reddit, though. I mean, even /pol/ was 'infiltrated' by the likes of CTR (although this of course doesn't work, since 4chan is aggressively anti-everything). Furthermore, the fact that all moderated political (and even many nonpolitical) forums are pushed and pulled towards the extreme fringes is understandable, even to be expected: those who take moderator jobs are those who are most driven about the subject at hand, and those are most often the ones with a fringe opinion.